Codenames

7:49 PM

!pinglist

BusinessCat Rubio Forklift JohnDvorak MorganG Deusovi You ffao boboquack thecoder16 ConorO'Brien Mithrandir GarethMcCaughan notjagan dcfyj micsthepick Wen1now cairdcoinheringaahing Tumbler41 Scrooble

o/

O/

The above doesn't actually ping anyone, does it?

Nope. !ping will, but half the people on there aren't actually pingable anymore.

7:57 PM

I usually just ping all the people that are in the room.

@Cowsquack @JoeyDionne @ffao @JohnDvorak @Deusovi @dcfyj

o/

@BusinessCat @Rubio @Forklift @MorganG @boboquack @thecoder16 @GarethMcCaughan @notjagan @micsthepick @Wen1now @cairdcoinheringaahing @Scrooble

Well, with Tumbler, Mith, Me, and John, we have enough to play.

Others can join as they come.

Who wants to SM?

@GentlePurpleRain !ping would've been easier :P

@GentlePurpleRain O/

I didn't want to double-ping anyone.

I can SM as well if no one else wants to.

i've been pinged!

i'm here.

8:01 PM

!newgame Mithrandir, GentlePurpleRain, John Dvorak, Tumbler41, thecoder16

RED: GentlePurpleRain, Tumbler41

BLUE: Mithrandir, John Dvorak, thecoder16

RED spymaster only, please click on this link to see the seed: https://onetimesecret.com/secret/ozzw3ibh0lybakd1m2tfpg5tbg8uiw8
BLUE spymaster only, please click on this link to see the seed: https://onetimesecret.com/secret/6ymnwa30r8h4sq801xwhdjha9bv9wvn

Please save the seed somewhere! As a last resort if any of you happens to forget the seed, you can type !recall to get a new link.

RED goes first!

!join

Hi Sid, you'll be joining team red!

RED: GentlePurpleRain, Tumbler41, Sid

Wait, people don't get pinged from the ping list? Why does it exist then?

@Tumbler41 you use the ping command to ping

8:02 PM

I know

pinglist simply lists who is on the... list

But Mith said "but half the people on there aren't actually pingable anymore."

People on the pinglist want to be pinged...

Red: IMAGINARY (2)

Greece seems obvious

8:06 PM

Europe even more so

@Sid @Tumbler41?

@Tumbler41 CENTAUR seems likely

Just let us play instead :P

Sorry, I don't know how I got on a team. I can't be here consistently until later.

Probably SUPERHERO as well.

8:08 PM

Seems Sid's solo

but I like centaur the most of any of those

CENTAUR

CENTAUR is red

CENTAUR is Red.

oh, superhero

8:09 PM

welp

what? Red is what we were going for. :P

SUPERHERO

SUPERHERO is red

Pass now?

[pass]

8:10 PM

I'll be in and out. So don't wait on me. Sorry.

We're not in a restaurant

Blue: Achilles (4)

foot

greece

death?

8:11 PM

that works, too

foot and greece for sure though

FOOT

FOOT is blue

GREECE

GREECE is blue

8:11 PM

novel, perhaps?

Europe?

i'd prefer death first

and then i'm not really sure

DEATH

DEATH is blue

Achilles(4) now goes on my list of best clues ever

EUROPE

8:13 PM

EUROPE is red

EUROPE is red.

oof

!board

close enough

8:13 PM

ooh, I see a better option yet now

Me, too. ;)

@Mithrandir if I got everything, that was a wonderful clue. Well done.

Red: DATE (3)

nice clue

i would have guessed superhero for the 4th

8:14 PM

@Sid Thanks :). We'll see when I dump ;)

palm maybe

night

I'd say the fourth is war

Palm, Court and Night?

Oh yeah. I like that

which first?

war

8:15 PM

PALM

PALM is RED

NIGHT

Night is RED

NIGHT is red.

COURT

8:16 PM

COURT is red

!board

COURT is red.

pass (no need to pull the board up again)

Assuming none of that was lucky guess, nice clue GPR!

8:18 PM

agreed. Also, Achilles was a great clue if war is ours.

oh we're dumb

i actually missed that word while reading

same here

Blue: Huitzilopchtli (2)

... what.

AZTEC

and that's all I know :P

AZTEC is blue.

8:20 PM

war next?

well sure then

WAR

is there any chance hutzipifjp is a skscraper?

any idea for this Aztec word?

WAR is blue

8:21 PM

I don't think Aztecs built skyscrapers, unless their temples count as such.

could it be a stadium? i have no idea

What was the capital of the Aztec empire?

(sorry, 'net cut out)

techoitheohtician?

oh, right

8:21 PM

obviously spelled that way

Aztecs did like their bloody football, so perhaps

probably should pass

unless you're feeling lucky

other options on board would be water god or bat god

I feel like guessing stadium since we don't really like anything else on the board.

wait it

it's a god?

IDK

They likely did have a water god though

8:23 PM

we only have 3 remaining, so maybe we should just wait

or maybe not, having a rain god, sea god... instead

If we pass and get a (2) clue, then stadium?

probably

[PASS]

Red: MUSIC CLASS (3)

8:24 PM

bugle

conductor

hmph...

chair?

Yup. Everything sounds good.

no teacher

ouch

8:25 PM

hence class

Teacher though?

It's a self-taught class

I don't know why else he would have said class

BUGLE

BUGLE is red

Go for it @Tumbler41

8:26 PM

CONDUCTOR

CONDUCTOR is blue.

CONDUCTOR is BLUE

wat

yay

sounds good

8:26 PM

Like I said, no organization between students :P

!board

Joey Dionne

ooo, an early game of codename

(1) = stadium. If we want water instead, should be easy to multiclue.

i'm not entirely sure either of those are correct lol

8:28 PM

which is why we passed

... uh oh.

@JoeyDionne @ManyPinkHats feel free to !join

!join

Hi ManyPinkHats, you'll be joining team blue!

BLUE: Mithrandir, John Dvorak, thecoder16, ManyPinkHats

we've almost won this one, i hope

We might have fried our SM's brain with our demand of 2-clue though :P

Joey Dionne

8:30 PM

I need to go back at home before joining

@Mithrandir alive?

braaaiins

whoops

Blue: James and the Giant Peach (2)

Uh oh.

8:32 PM

so, uh...

kid, aunts, peach

animals

that's what i remember

I don't actually know the story being referenced

is it a novel?

its'a . roald dahl book

childrens book

It's a children's book by Roald Dahl

There's also a movie adaptation.

i'm assuming novel is what we want though

8:33 PM

do they use water prominently?

they travel above the ocean some

on a bat mount?

I hope that NOVEL is good; it's the only thing I can connect decently

go for novel?

Joey Dionne

brb, I should be there for the next game if there is one

8:34 PM

i think at some point a BAT flies by

NOVEL

i woudl go novel, then water

NOVEL is BLUE

I'm fine with water. We still have an unfinished Aztec god after all.

@many

do you now who Huitzilopchtli

is

8:35 PM

Judging from the name, some Aztec something :P

... but it could have been a bat-shaped god instead :P Although, Aztecs were more into snakes.

But apart from that, nope

i guess water then?

yep

hmm

if you were to clue NOVEL and WATER though

would you really go for James and the Giant Peach?

8:36 PM

true

good question

any alternate clues for NOVEL + BAT?

the main words i can see coming out of that book are aunt, kid, peach, insects

a spring is sort of a novel water, but I might not want to use it as a clue.

Would Waterworld have been a valid clue?

@JohnDvorak Yes.

hm...

8:39 PM

I'm sorry; I'm really bad at this game, I mostly join and immediately sow doubt everywhere

That is fine

I'm leaning bat now.

Worst case we lose.

i have no idea

coin toss?

red = bat, blue = water

!flipcoin

!cointoss

8:40 PM

Red

bat it is, then

BAT

BAT is yellow

!board

RIP

8:41 PM

well we have a small chance...?

Red: LINE (0)

ok

Yep, theoretically

Yeah. Chair and teacher

so that means it's not row

I think I'm good with that... I can't think of better.

TEACHER

8:43 PM

TEACHER is red

CHAIR

CHAIR is RED

CHAIR is red.

GG!

!finalboard

8:43 PM

gg!

... not water either?

skyscraper?

oh i guess that makes sense, in the end

Huh. I was sure it was Water. Especially when the clue was Achilles

they fly past skyscrapers

8:44 PM

skyscraper? I really don't know Aztecs.

GREECE, WAR, DEATH, AZTEC, CONDUCTOR, FOOT, SKYSCRAPER, NOVEL.

GREECE, WAR, DEATH, and FOOT all immediately suggest “Achilles (4)”. My only worry is that SUPERHERO could potentially be guessed, but hopefully the others will be obvious enough that they won’t get tripped up. Maybe worth going for it.

Cluing AZTEC, CONDUCTOR, SKYSCRAPER and NOVEL seems like it’ll be more difficult – none of them have any obvious connection.

(Hmm, maybe “Trojan War (4)” would be better than “Achilles”?)

Whatever, just went with “Achilles”. Good, FOOT down. And GREECE. Now WAR and DEATH please :)

They got all the ones for achilles tho

What's the best word for CENTAUR and SUPERHERO? I don't know if FICTIONAL CHARACTER would be allowed. I have to be careful to get something that won't include NOVEL. How about IMAGINARY?
Perfect response!

Looks like blue has a bunch of Trojan-war-related clues. What are they going to do with that?
Wow! ACHILLES is a great clue! I might have only done 3, but DEATH shouldn't be too hard to get.

Glad they gave us one of ours!

Now what can I do with the rest? Something with COURT and NIGHT? What about DATE? Yeah, actually, that would fit with PALM, too!

lol

We got teacher before we started guessing anything. :P

I still think conductor was a pretty good fit, but I see your reasoning.

8:46 PM

Yeah, the MUSIC CLASS one was not my best clue.

Yeah, and band class would have made sense if we had stadium

Blue:

That clue went right past me

Anywho. G2G, I'll return at the normal scheduled time for this.

!leave

RED: GentlePurpleRain, Sid

8:47 PM

@Mith I could see your last two words, and I still didn't know how SKYSCRAPER fit with JatGP.

I can play again, but can't SM

I may have to leave before it's over.

1 min ago, by Mithrandir

I can SM if needed

Yeah, I get it now. But I didn't remember that about the book. It's not exactly the focus of it.

It's the climax, though

@Mith are you going to SM again?

8:48 PM

and i was totally stuck :P

Everyone else still in?

no, i have to disappear for a few

I would have guessed Water for Achilles though. Maybe even before war/death

i'm in

@thecoder To SM, or play?

ffao

8:49 PM

just got here, can play in the next one

to play

to sm maybe

i can if no one else does

@Sid Plausible, but not what I was aiming for

I can try SMing; I can't do any worse there than I did at guessing

In. Can't SM as I can fall asleep any moment

!newgame ManyPinkHats, John Dvorak, Sid, ffao, thecoder16, GentlePurpleRain